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Stuck key on keyboard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being at home this week means that I have had a stack of &#8220;jobs&#8221; to get through (and I haven&#8217;t completed most of them&#8230; although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/05\/miscellaneous-painting-and-decorating-tips.htm\">at least the decorating is done<\/a>) but it also means I&#8217;m &#8220;on call&#8221; for family IT issues.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, my wife exclaimed that Windows Media Player was &#8220;throbbing&#8221; in the taskbar on her Windows 7 computer. Sure enough, there it was, pulsing away to suggest an alert but there was\u00a0no dialog asking for input. I closed Media Player and it came back; I killed the process via Task Manager and it came back; I did what every self-respecting PC support guy would do and asked\u00a0when she last rebooted the computer and Mrs W\u00a0replied that she had already tried that (as every self-respecting user will respond to such advice!)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Fearing a virus I decided to search the net for advice and found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomshardware.co.uk\/forum\/4331-63-windows-media-player-crazy#9575541\">a Tom&#8217;s Hardware forum post which suggested it might be a stuck media key<\/a>. Sure enough, examining the external keyboard shown that was the problem! 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